Retail Banking Jobs

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 583 670 585
Rank change year-on-year +87 -85 +266
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 148 167 510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.20% 0.46%
As % of the General category 0.39% 0.33% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 48 137 291
10th Percentile £38,750 £57,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £64,688 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,400 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% +21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £118,750 £96,539 £89,852
90th Percentile £125,000 £118,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,800 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +22.57% +7.69% +44.44%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 38,053 50,086 76,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.37% 61.22% 69.01%
Number of salaries quoted 17,084 35,553 42,135
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,101 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,331
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.84% +0.55%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +5.00%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Retail Banking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Retail Banking.

Salary trend for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 6 March 2025.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 6 March 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +100 136 £82,500 -2.94% 44
London +73 107 £76,250 -12.86% 32
UK excluding London +86 40 £85,800 +22.57% 19
Work from Home +81 19 £25,625 -59.00% 14
North of England +47 14 £25,625 -66.28% 6
Scotland +51 11 £125,000 +38.89% 6
North West +21 7 £94,637 +58.91% 3
Yorkshire +57 6 £25,625 -67.88% 3
South East +54 5 £85,800 +243.20% 3
Midlands +16 5 £65,000 +9.14% 2
West Midlands +11 4 £65,000 +9.14% 1
South West +66 3 £95,000 +34.61% 1
East of England +18 2 £70,000 +12.00%
North East - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

Retail Banking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (11.49%) SAS
2 14 (9.46%) Mule
3 3 (2.03%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 54 (36.49%) AWS
1 54 (36.49%) Azure
2 35 (23.65%) GCP
3 9 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (6.08%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 9 (6.08%) Amazon S3
3 9 (6.08%) CloudFront
3 9 (6.08%) GitHub
3 9 (6.08%) Route 53
3 9 (6.08%) Snowflake
4 7 (4.73%) Datadog
4 7 (4.73%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.35%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (0.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) Firewall
1 1 (0.68%) LAN
1 1 (0.68%) Network Security
1 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.68%) VoIP
1 1 (0.68%) WAN
1 1 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.19%) Data Lake
1 21 (14.19%) Metadata
2 9 (6.08%) DocumentDB
2 9 (6.08%) NoSQL
2 9 (6.08%) Redis
2 9 (6.08%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.73%) Power BI
5 5 (3.38%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.68%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 14 (9.46%) GitLab
2 12 (8.11%) Git
3 9 (6.08%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.41%) CircleCI
4 8 (5.41%) JUnit
5 6 (4.05%) Grunt
5 6 (4.05%) Jasmine
5 6 (4.05%) Mocha
5 6 (4.05%) webpack
5 6 (4.05%) Xcode
5 6 (4.05%) XCTest
General
1 110 (74.32%) Finance
2 109 (73.65%) Banking
3 49 (33.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 39 (26.35%) Social Skills
5 36 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (14.19%) Financial Institution
7 14 (9.46%) Legal
8 7 (4.73%) Retail
9 6 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (4.05%) Public Speaking
9 6 (4.05%) Social Science
10 5 (3.38%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.35%) Automotive
11 2 (1.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 42 (28.38%) Senior
2 40 (27.03%) Lead
3 32 (21.62%) Developer
4 30 (20.27%) Architect
5 21 (14.19%) Data Architect
6 14 (9.46%) Analyst
6 14 (9.46%) Fraud Analyst
6 14 (9.46%) Senior Analyst
6 14 (9.46%) Senior Developer
6 14 (9.46%) Senior Strategy Analyst
6 14 (9.46%) Strategy Analyst
7 9 (6.08%) .NET Developer
7 9 (6.08%) Risk Manager
8 8 (5.41%) Android Developer
8 8 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.73%) Senior Architect
9 7 (4.73%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (4.05%) Java Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (21.62%) RESTful
2 16 (10.81%) GraphQL
3 15 (10.14%) AngularJS
3 15 (10.14%) Kafka
3 15 (10.14%) React
4 10 (6.76%) .NET
5 8 (5.41%) Android SDK
6 6 (4.05%) Bootstrap
6 6 (4.05%) Chai
6 6 (4.05%) CSS
6 6 (4.05%) Enzyme
6 6 (4.05%) iOS SDK
6 6 (4.05%) Jest
6 6 (4.05%) LESS
6 6 (4.05%) OAuth2
6 6 (4.05%) Redux
6 6 (4.05%) Sass
6 6 (4.05%) Semantic UI
6 6 (4.05%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.05%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.86%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.46%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.76%) Public Cloud
4 9 (6.08%) Distributed Applications
4 9 (6.08%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (5.41%) CMDB
5 8 (5.41%) Mobile App
6 6 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.70%) Derivative
7 4 (2.70%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.70%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.03%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.03%) Online Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.76%) Android
2 8 (5.41%) Windows
3 6 (4.05%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.35%) CoreOS
4 2 (1.35%) Linux
4 2 (1.35%) Unix
4 2 (1.35%) zOS
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (44.59%) Agile
2 49 (33.11%) Asset Management
3 34 (22.97%) Business Development
4 33 (22.30%) CI/CD
4 33 (22.30%) Data Management
5 31 (20.95%) Mentoring
6 30 (20.27%) Coaching
7 29 (19.59%) Data Modelling
8 28 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (18.24%) Innovative Thinking
9 27 (18.24%) Migration
10 26 (17.57%) Analytics
11 25 (16.89%) Microservices
12 22 (14.86%) TDD
13 21 (14.19%) Data Architecture
13 21 (14.19%) Data Migration
13 21 (14.19%) Data Privacy
13 21 (14.19%) Data Strategy
13 21 (14.19%) Metadata Management
13 21 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (21.62%) Java
2 24 (16.22%) SQL
3 21 (14.19%) Python
4 16 (10.81%) C#
5 10 (6.76%) Kotlin
6 8 (5.41%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.05%) Objective-C
7 6 (4.05%) Swift
7 6 (4.05%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.38%) Scala
9 3 (2.03%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.35%) Bicep
10 2 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.35%) Ruby
11 1 (0.68%) Bash
Qualifications
1 24 (16.22%) AWS Certification
2 21 (14.19%) Azure Certification
3 13 (8.78%) Degree
4 3 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (2.03%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.05%) ITGC
1 6 (4.05%) QA
2 3 (2.03%) COBIT
2 3 (2.03%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (9.46%) Docker
2 2 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.73%) Grafana
2 7 (4.73%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.70%) Terraform
4 3 (2.03%) Ansible
5 2 (1.35%) CA Endevor
5 2 (1.35%) Packer
5 2 (1.35%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.35%) Puppet
6 1 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 22 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.46%) Brio
3 9 (6.08%) Databricks
4 8 (5.41%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.05%) Apple
6 5 (3.38%) Adobe
6 5 (3.38%) Google
7 2 (1.35%) Teradata
8 1 (0.68%) Aruba
8 1 (0.68%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco
8 1 (0.68%) Mitel
8 1 (0.68%) NetApp
8 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.68%) VMware